Does Visual Studio Rot the Mind?

2005-10-27T23:25:00

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by Charles Petzold
Of course, we Unix guys have known it for a long long time - vi rules!
No amount of IDEification can make a stupid API look intelligent.
A good programming language (like Python) well designed libraries and a sensible editor like `vi' will make you more productive than using the latest version of
a fashionable IDE.